Read/Write FTP Issues

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I'm trying to install the xml-sitemaps.com tool through FTP for a client.

I'm having a problem changing the read/write information using Filezilla.

I right-click the file and hit "File attributes". Then, I change the numeric value to 666 and I receive the following error...

Command: SITE CHMOD 666 sitemap.xml
Response: 500 'SITE CHMOD 666 sitemap.xml': command not understood

Any ideas?
#programming #ftp #issues #read or write
  • Is it a *nix server, or a windows server?
  • It's a Windows Server.
  • Hello noodle24,
    Unix boxes understand chmod but Windows boxes don't. The error you saw earlier was a 500 internal server error. The permissions you are trying to set with chmod 666 means you want read/write for user, group, and world. The Windows box might only allow you to set read/write permissions for everybody in the cgi-bin subdirectory. If you change subdirectories to cgi or cgi-bin does that help? Also you need to find out if you can alter permissions on files from the web hosting side, instead of from the FTP side. For example, change permissions on files after they have been uploaded using the web hosting administration panel.
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